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Please note: Faculty members must be approved to represent a specific concentration on a student's Special Committee.

  • Leslie Adelson -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: postwar German literature; migrant and minority discourses; Jewish studies; feminist theory; cultural history

  • Josephine Allen -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: international political economy

  • Edward Baptist -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: U.S. history, U.S. south, political culture and masculinity, history of slaves in the Americas, history of gender and race

  • Alaka Basu -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies;

  • Rosemary Batt -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: labor markets; changing nature of work and technology; service sector employment and productivity; work-family relations

  • Daryl Bem -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: sexual orientation; beliefs, attitudes, and ideologies; psychology of personality

  • Sandra Bem -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: social construction of gender and sexuality; clinical psychology

  • Lourdes Beneria -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: labor and development economics; women and work; international development and women

  • Anne Berger -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: eighteenth- and twentieth-century French literature; women writers; contemporary French thought; cultural politics of the Maghreb

  • Judith Bernstock -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: modern art, nineteenth- and twentieth- centuries

  • Francine Blau -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: labor market outcomes of men and women (including wages, occupations, etc.); labor force participation decisions; labor economics; demographic outcomes

  • Laura Brown -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: Restoration and eighteenth-century literature; the female literary tradition; feminist criticism and theory

  • Susan Buck-Morss -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: political and social theory

  • Debra Castillo -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: Hispanic women writers

  • Derek Chang -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: Asian-American history; African-American history; ethnicity and race (United States and comparative); American social and cultural history; U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction; comparative slavery and emancipation; American religious history; immigration history

  • Barbara Correll -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: gender and sexuality in Renaissance literature and cultural history; early modern women?s writing

  • Shelley Correll -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: gender inequality, gender and interaction, social psychology, gender and work

  • Ileen Devault -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: U.S. working-class history; women?s labor history; gender and class

  • Laura Donaldson -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: American Indian literature and culture; American Indian women; post-colonial studies; gender, race and law; religion and literature

  • Matthew Evangelista -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: international relations; gender and war; international humanitarian law

  • Rochelle (Shelley) Feldman -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: South Asia; feminist epistemology; international political economy; development theory; citizenship; Islamic fundamentalism; labor markets

  • Maria Fernandez -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: history and theory of digital art; cybernetics and art in the late 1950s and 1960s; artificial life art; the integration of media theory with post-colonial and feminist theory

  • Joanne Fortune -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: hormonal control of ovarian development and function in vertebrates

  • Robert Frank -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: female-male wage differentials

  • J. Ellen Gainor -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: feminist theatre criticism and theory; women playwrights

  • Jennifer Gerner -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: female labor-force supply and fertility; economic implications of legislation; affirmative action; family formation and dissolution

  • Durba Ghosh -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: modern south Asia; gender; colonialism

  • Sandra Greene -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: gender and ethnicity in precolonial West Africa

  • Sabine Haenni -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: American cinema and cultural studies, intersections of gender and ethnicity in U.S. popular and mass culture

  • Kim Haines-Eitzen -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: early Christianity; women?s studies; biblical studies; early Judaism

  • Ellis Hanson -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: queer theory; Victorian studies; film

  • Molly Hite -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: twentieth-century women writers; feminist theory

  • David Holmberg -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: anthropology of women and gender; cultural anthropology; religion and society

  • Cary Howie -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: French and Italian middle Ages in relation to literacy theory, theology and queer studies

  • Robert Hutchens -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: impact of welfare programs on female-headed families

  • Paul Hyams -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: medieval European social, legal, and political history; England to 1400

  • Jan Jennings -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: design and environmental analysis

  • Mary Katzenstein -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: women and politics; population policy; South Asia

  • Isaac Kramnick -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: women in social theory

  • Claudia Lazzaro -- Research interests: medieval and Renaissance art history

  • Petrus Liu -- Research interests: Marxian economics; gendered subjectivities in post-colonial cultures; 19th- and 20th-Century Chinese literacy and intellectual thought; popular culture

  • Jean Locey -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: photography

  • Kathleen Long -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: French Renaissance literatures and cultures, history of science, gender and sexuality studies (hermaphrodites, early modern transexuality and religious violence)

  • Tamara Loos -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: Southeast Asia; Thailand; gender; legal studies; sexuality; Internet; travel; identity

  • Kathryn March -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: anthropology of sex and gender; gender symbolism; life histories; women in development; social and cultural anthropology; South Asia and the Himalayas

  • Sherry Martin -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: Japanese politics, mass participation, political socialization, electoral politics

  • Kate McCullough -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: gay and lesbian studies; women and literature; feminist theory

  • Laura Meixner -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: women art patrons (nineteenth century); representations of women in the nineteenth century

  • Marilyn Migiel -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies;

  • Mary Beth Norton -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: American women; women in America before 1860

  • Andrea Parrot -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: women?s health; sexuality; violence against women; cross cultural women?s issues

  • Judith Peraino -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: medieval music; popular music; gender and sexuality in music

  • Masha Raskolnikov -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: Middle English literature; allegory theory; medieval philosophy and rhetoric; contemporary critical theory; feminist and queer studies

  • Quinetta Roberson -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: organizational justice; diversity and inclusion

  • Margaret Rossiter -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: women and gender in the history of science

  • Nerissa Russell -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: European and Near Eastern pre-history; Neolithic studies; zooarchaeology and bone tools; inequality; human-animal relationships; social and symbolic roles of animals and meat

  • Naoki Sakai -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: nationalism; colonialism; racism; the study of visuality, aural-orality and body; translation and writing systems; 17th- to 20th-Century Japanese thought; Japanese literacy criticism; subjectivity and comparative philosophy

  • Shirley Samuels -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: American women; women?s fiction

  • Paul Sangren -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: Chinese studies; demography; economic anthropology; comparative religion; ideology and social production

  • Vilma Santiago-Irizarry -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: ethnoracial identity; law; medicine; language; institutional culture; ethnographic methods; dance; the United States; Spanish-speaking Caribbean

  • Ritch Savin-Williams -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: developmental processes among gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals; sexual minorities; clinical psychology

  • Dawn Schrader -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: moral development; epistemology; metacognition; life-span developmental psychology

  • Suman Seth -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: history of physical sciences in the 19th and 20th Centuries; gender and science; science, colonialism, and nationalism

  • Anna Marrie Smith -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: lesbian, bisexual and gay studies; feminist theory; theoretical approaches to race and racism; contemporary political theory

  • Pamela Tolbert -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: organizations, gender stratification

  • Marie-Claire Vallois -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: French women writers; French feminism; women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France

  • Amy Villarejo -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: feminist and queer film/video; "Third Cinema"; postcolonial film/video; Marxism/cultural studies

  • Mildred Warner -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: privatization; devolution; social policy; economic development; social capital

  • Rachel Weil -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: gender; political culture in early modern England and Europe

  • Lindy Williams -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: family sociology and household decision making

  • Dagmawi Woubshet -- Concentrations: feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; Research interests: AIDS narratives; African-American literature and culture; queer studies; Ethiopian poetics